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"Mr President, the task of those in this House, such as myself, who are both MEPs and authors, must surely be, in an avant-garde and constructive way, to use criticism as a way of waking up the great – who must, being thus awakened – respond to our criticisms in a practical way. I see that Mr Karas is next on the list to speak; well, Othmar, here comes an easy ball for you. The effect of what is happening now is that the EU mainstream rubs its eyes and says, ‘yes, we really do have a problem’, but I ask you to think forward to the move after this one. The Prognos study is an impressive demonstration of the fact that we will not, of course, achieve full employment in the next couple of decades. On the contrary, we will be moving towards what one of the journalists on the
calls the ‘disposable American’, or, to put it in our terms, the ‘disposable European’. It is to that that we will have to find solutions. We have an enormous problem with the loss of the services that have provided jobs to replace the industrial jobs that are no longer there. This is where we need to move ahead, this is where we need approaches that are good for more than just today. Indeed so: one core issue, one potential starting point, is the reallocation of all these millions and billions that are still hidden away in the EU’s budget and being wasted on pointless things. I am thinking, for example, of the way in which the most-subsidised sector of agriculture in France is the production of rice. We also have a chance, in the current absence of a finalised Financial Perspective, to make more improvements here and of accomplishing even now what you will otherwise do only after another five or ten years, when it will, again, be almost too late."@en1
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